You probably see it every time you make a grocery run: the Express lane, with its sign inviting shoppers with “ten items or less.” Despite how widespread it is, though, this phrase is actually ...

I was taught to use “fewer” with countable nouns: “less coal, fewer sacks”. Perhaps the rule could be expressed in a more contemporary form as: “less protectionism and fewer tariffs”.

1. "Whether report": If you write, "I am deciding whether to go to the concert," don't write "whether or not." The word "whether" embodies "or not." 2. Who/whom: It's correct to say, "Whom are you ...

To the Editor: In your editorial in the New Hampshire Sunday News, November 8-9, titled “Taking Manhattan,” you correct Governor Kelly Ayotte’s use of “less” taxes, it should be fewer.